Is that more a product of throwing as often as they do or are their real issues with the offensive line? Purdue has allowed 20 sacks through 6 games, which is the most in the Big Ten. Sindlear played most of the game against Wisconsin, but struggled some against a stout defense.Įach has started three games, and I would bet both play at least some against Rutgers. Sindelar has the bigger arm, but Blough has been a little more accurate. He has platooned with Elijah Sindelar and somehow coach Brohm has made it work. David Blough was virtually perfect in the first three drives at Missouri, but threw bad interceptions against Missouri. There is still a lot more that can be done. Terry Wright has given us a speed element, while Gregory Phillips and Anthony Mahoungou have been steady producers after being overlooked for much of the Hazell era. Tight Ends Cole HErdman and Bryson Hopkins have been devastating over the middle and up the seam. At first it was Jackson Anthrop, who had four touchdowns in the first three games. In the other four games Purdue has spread the ball around to a variety of receivers. Wisconsin and Michigan both contained Purdue, but they are both really, really good defenses in almost every category. TM: In reality, I don’t think it has entirely awoken yet. How has the offense and particularly, the passing game, jump started the rebuild in year one under Brohm? Brohm has not only given Purdue an offensive identity, he has completely changed the attitude of every player. We probably would have lost at home to a good MAC team in Ohio. He would have been completely unprepared at Missouri. There is no way his team would have responded to adversity like we did against Minnesota. Hazell would almost certainly be 1-5 at best right now. In fact, we feel like we may have let games against Louisville and Wisconsin get away. Now, 6 weeks in, we’re halfway there and we have been competitive in every game. Finally, Coach Brohm has this team overachieving.īefore the season I felt a bowl game was possible, but only if everything went absolutely perfect. We just opened a new $65 million football performance facility that now has us on par with the rest of the conference. We just finished the first year under new AD Mike Bobinski who has responded with a new commitment to the program that was badly needed. Attendance was down, we were saddled with an AD that did not know how to run a modern football program, and we had the worst facilities in the conference by a wide margin. He had one home win over a Big Ten team, and it took a freshman walk-on quarterback making five turnovers for that to happen. Darrell Hazell won 9 games in 4 years and only 5 of them were against FBS competition. Before Brohm came Purdue was a dead program. What is the mood like with the fan base and what are realistic expectations for the rest of this season? The Jeff Brohm era is off to a good start. In an effort to find out more about Purdue football ahead of this weekend's game, I was fortunate to speak with Travis Miller, the founder and managing editor for SB Nation's Purdue site, Hammer And Rails. The Boilermakers are much improved this season under first year head coach Jeff Brohm. While Rutgers (2-4 1-2) is looking to build off their first Big Ten victory of the "Ash Era", Purdue (3-3 1-2) enters this game after a hard fought, one score loss at #5 Wisconsin. Rutgers and Purdue meet for the first time ever this Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium at noon in what is the Homecoming game.
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